Root asphyxia: causes, effects, solution

Waterlogging, root asphyxia and plant tissue necrosis are three interconnected abiotic stresses that farmers are called upon to control. These three adversities of atmospheric-environmental origin (excessive rainfall, poor soil drainage, but also inadequate irrigation practices) affect the respiration processes of plant tissues, particularly those of the root system.

An excess of water in the soil near the plant's roots, i.e. water stagnation, gives rise to the phenomenon of root asphyxia because it impairs its capacity for aeration and oxygenation to the point of tissue necrosis and plant death.

In agriculture, the assessment of the health of the root system undoubtedly falls on the soil conditions and the relative microbiological balance of the soil. Evidence of this is provided by horticultural crops infested with fusarium. Tree root systems affected by Armillaria are no less so.

We have met agronomic soil scientists who rely on the QBS-ar method, based on the presence of arthropods (e.g. collemboles, symphylae, mites, etc.) as indicators of the biological quality of the soil and the degree of stability and functionality of the ecosystem, also in relation to pollution and biodiversity. This interesting survey technique, which was also applied to crops treated with BioAksxter® in comparison with untreated crops, although it showed 'a clear increase in arthropod biodiversity from both a quantitative and qualitative point of view', seems to us to be far removed from the energetic evaluations needed for plant health, crop productivity and environmental balance.

The evaluation, in fact, must not only concern the physical, chemical and biological planes that agronomic knowledge usually refers to. We are referring in particular to the magnetic plane and the related natural phenomena that, in defence of its own interests rather than real needs, the agricultural system pretends not to care about.

The energetic state of a system, an organism, a plant or its parts (e.g. cells, plant tissue, etc.) is strictly dependent on the earth's magnetic field; the planet, everything that lives on the planet, the very matter of which everything is made up depend on the laws of subatomic physics, i.e. the magnetic charges, which determine their form and substance. We should start looking less specialised and more in depth, relating the part to the whole. A modern 'De Divina Proportione', the 'Pi' of our knowledge.

Restoration of root functionality

Root formation from secondary axes, or simply secondary growth, is the plant's attempt to restore root functionality after having suffered damage. Agronomic science limits itself to naming the event by attributing it to an 'innate plant sense'. It considers the physical, chemical, biological plane, but does not know the magnetic plane that programmes matter by determining its form and substance.

In the case of root asphyxia, the re-establishment of conditions favourable to the efficiency of the hypogeal apparatus depends primarily on the plant's ability to reprogramme and only secondarily on the replenishment of nutritional reserves. There is therefore no need to administer stimulating substances for the formation of new roots. We would produce forced behaviour and a poor quality of the final agricultural product.

It is insufficient to administer any preparation that does not energetically feed the magnetic plane while preserving the plant's primary programming. In this sense, chemicals work on the material structure, straining matter at the expense of energy. We must consider that cellular differentiation (e.g. in grapes, of the skin or flesh of a berry or stalk) is consequent to the specific programme of each individual part.

The plant, like the human body, is a marvellous machine powered by energies (solar energy, but also other universal energies used in chlorophyll photosynthesis) and thus by magnetic flows.

The magnetic formulation that characterises BioAksxter® fertilisers makes available huge amounts of energy that is indispensable for the vital processes of plant and soil. Acting precisely on the reprogramming capacity of plants, this energy technology is proven:

• positively influences the ability of the soil to transfer the water it contains, thus favouring its access to crops.
• It increases the respiratory activity of microorganisms in the soil and also promotes oxygen exchange between soil and atmosphere.